[support] Drupal7 should send notification about updates

[Jamie Holly]

Adding to what Jason said, 99% of the time this turns out to be a server 
issue. I've got about a 1/2 dozen Drupal 7 sites running that I get 
notifications from all the time, so it's working in Drupal.

Check your reports for PHP errors relating to mail. You can also quickly 
check if mail is working by logging out then requesting a new password 
for your account. It won't change your password unless you click the 
link in the email, so just ignore it (if you get it) and log back in 
then check out the reports.

If Drupal isn't spitting out an error in the log, then there's something 
wrong on the server. You can check the mail logs for hints and try 
sending mail straight from a terminal window (if you have access to 
these). These can sometimes turn into a real pain to track down and the 
easiest alternative is generally using the SMTP module and configure it 
to use something like GMail to send you site's emails with.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 12/14/2011 12:10 PM, Jason Flatt wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 08:19 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> >  Dear list,
> >
> >  I have now some time a drupal 7.10 installation running.
> >  Some modules are outdated, but I got no notification from the system
> >  that there are updates available.
> >
> >  Under /#overlay=admin/reports/updates/settings I filled my email
> >  address, selected daily check and send for all versions.
> >
> >  Under reports I see that the cron process was execute 1 hour 17 minutes
> >  ago, so I think with the cron process is everything fine.
> >
> >  Is this a bug in drupal7 or must I setup some more options?
> >
> >  Thanks
> >  Matthias
>
>
> Have you set up your Drupal 7 site up on a computer that does not have a
> mail transfer agent on it, like your local computer or a Windows server?
>    If so, you won't see any of the messages Drupal sends, because there
> is no software installed on the computer to send the messages with.
>
> To test, try sending yourself a message using the Contact module.  If
> you do not receive that message, then you most likely do not have a mail
> transfer agent installed on that computer.
>
> If you cannot or are not allowed to install a mail transfer agent, you
> can use either the PHPMailer module [1] or the SMTP Authentication
> Support module [2].  Be sure to follow the directions for installation,
> because both modules require an external library.
>
> [1] http://drupal.org/project/phpmailer
> [2] http://drupal.org/project/smtp
>
>